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nineteen year old received a throat injury during a fierce standoff with police and is still unable to speak charges against the alleged bomber g. to be filed later on monday more details now from our to. he's currently at a boston hospital being treated for injuries we're hearing that he is awake and answering officials questions sporadically in writing they're asking him about any further possible accomplices in the boston bombings case as well as whether or not any further explosive devices should be of concern to officials but as of yet we're not hearing any details officials are not revealing any details in terms of the answers that is giving them course all of this comes after he was arrested friday night after a mass lockdown took place in boston after a unprecedented manhunt that took place here and a several hour shootout between law enforcement and this nineteen year old suspect we do know that he suffered injuries to his throat and was unable to speak and this
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is precisely what officials have been waiting for to be able to communicate with him to find out the motives to the boston bombings as well as the participation of any per possible further accomplices apart from the two brothers that have been hunted by a officials here throughout the week nineteen year old dzhokhar and twenty six year old to milan and of course we have to note that the miranda rights officer and i have have been revoked the rights and he has to remain silent as well as the right to a lawyer are being denied to him because officials are interested in being able to question him without being able to use this right and the fact that his miranda rights have been revoked is receiving major criticism throughout the united states and causing really a lot of debate between certain politicians and civil rights groups also it's important to mention that republican lawmakers in the united states have been suggesting that to be treated as an enemy competent this is also been a topic of much debate because we are of course talking about a u.s. citizen as we do know back in two thousand and eleven they did receive
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a request from a foreign government this is russia's government that said that they should look into the identity of the older brother the older suspect to milan back that he was twenty four years. old and the f.b.i. did receive recommendations that they investigate him they did in fact bring to marilyn in for questioning the followed his phone calls they intercepted his social relationships as well as his activity online but did come to a conclusion that he is not dangerous and did end up freeing him and of course because the f.b.i. right now is being criticized for this they're going to trace their steps back look into what exactly they could have missed but also try to establish right now with the second suspect being alive whether the two brothers had any kind of connection to extremist groups that they might have overlooked two years ago and in the time in the years and days leading up to the bombings that took place here in boston also of course they're going to consider and look into the purposes of the trip that the older brother to milan when he went back to the north caucuses for about
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six months they're going to try to see whether or not this time was used for him to be able to communicate with extremist groups on the ground and. boston massachusetts well a former federal agent says the u.s. needs to rethink its policy on terrorism and who it deems to be a danger to the country. but this idea terrorism is such a confusing concept because we have our terrorists and they are terrorists it's the definition is supposed to be acts of violence against civilians for political purposes but you see this over and over where there they you us considers that there are good rebels and good freedom fighters at the very least the separatists in other countries are not considered as terrorists we have a whole establishment neoconservative as stablished in the us now i have only involved in propagandizing that there are good rebel groups for instance in iran is
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the latest example of the mujahideen call that actually was on the the us terrorist list but now we have been delisted to become the good rebel fighters against iran. the revelation that the boston terror suspects are of chechen origin has seen an influx of jews in this to russia's north caucuses where the brother's family to live while the parents are no longer willing to comment on the issue r.t. husband able to speak to another relative who knew the alleged bombers from childhood. really almost anyone who has any links with a to have a nice family is really in deep shock after what happened both relatives and friends now the brothers spare and stops talking to the media as if early saturday but i managed to speak to a close relative of the family now her name is. and he was she was married to the boy's uncle now she told me how really tragic and difficult the life of the type i have family was and that for years they had been moving from one place to another
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as the father couldn't find a proper job and they've moved twice from kyrgyzstan's first to than to dagestan were they span just a bit over a year and till they moved to the united states in two thousand to seven showed us some pictures that were taken during that time pictures that captured both brothers in their early trials of women in one picture the older brother is just a bit over a year old now she spent a lot of time with tom avalon when he came here to dagestan last year to visit his parents and she describes him as a very family loving and caring young man and when i asked her whether he expressed any acts or interest in this she told me that his interest was never overwhelming. the middle and wasn't a religious fanatic he was curious about religion he started to be really interested in islam about three years ago but he was never a radical we would talk about his commitment to religion but it wasn't extreme it
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was really hard for her to speak she told me that. the younger brother was planning to come here to dagestan this may and now their father plans a trip to the united states to bury his son to medal and so as for many here if she couldn't the woman couldn't really believe that they were involved in the tragedy. it's impossible to believe that they could have carried it out just impossible it's terrible. but if you believe their children who respected their parents a lot time or learned was very attentive to older people to spam for him have been was of use mother's feet both parents mobile phones are switched off or rarely own line and it's really impossible to reach them but i have since managed to speak to the mother of the two brothers and kept repeating their first answer in this and she also mentioned that her eldest son tamerlan was under constant surveillance for
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years then both parents before mentioned that and told them that the i would be i contacted him right after the boston bombings and ask him for questioning however the albi or the hour later denied that information now as for the father i spoke with him also in a telephone conversation just yesterday and he told me that he doesn't want to talk to any media right now so really dozens of journalists from all over the world is that have descended on this region holds that the man's family will speak and eventually shed some light to how their boys and it up the main suspects in the boston terrorist attack. do go to r.t. dot com to get the full picture of what the past week has meant for the citizens of boston or online photo gallery that contains images of the tragic events unfolding at the marathon as well as the manhunt followed. spent ten months holed up in ecuador's embassy in london and the u.k.
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you spend millions on watching the door he faces extradition to sweden for questioning over sexual assault allegations although no charges have been brought against him when i spoke to him at the embassy and joins us live now from london. what is a staunch tell you about his future and what about wiki leaks future. well one thing that's got the man excited is politics as many of you will know he's making a bid for the australian senate there's now a wiki leaks party that stands for truthfulness and the free flow of information the free flow of information and when our studio songs about how he found sees this chances at getting into the senate considering that he's holed up in the embassy and campaigning is going to be very difficult he actually mentions that he's got quite a considerable interest in both him and the we can make and the wiki leaks party and i've got to mention though that pollsters have said that that interest might
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not necessarily might not necessarily translate into enough votes to actually vote him in but of course in terms of political goals of silence is very clear he says he wants to put a stop to the u.s. corruption. so let's take a listen to him elaborating on that point for mr perot was the u.s. embassy before it even back in the nineteenth seventy's even when he was a member of what senior member of the new south wales for this for you use the term permanent to do you want to roll the sitting prime minister can rub it happened part because she sent it in for you to viewers in the seats but stop there's a constant back and forth in this sort of preparation. where she was gracious himself with various parties but he's been in the embassy for ten months now bearing up. well when i saw him he looked very calm he looked in good health
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actually despite respond to despite reports at the end of last year saying that he had lung problems and you know apart from the politics there's been a bit of a creative florrie because very recently we've seen the release of the weekend weeks plus the project otherwise known as the kissinger cable so he's got a lot on his. late and of course when i also know about how long he imagines he's going to remain in the embassy for he was very simple in on three and he said as long as it takes is there any indication that the stalemate might end in fact and he would be he would be able to walk free. well you know very recently there have been reports that ecuadorian diplomats in a meeting with the labor party in the u.k. were actually raise the issue of judy in a sauna perhaps in an attempt to get a guarantee of safe passage for julian assange orange in case labor does come to power after the general elections in twenty fifteen but when i asked about it he
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was quite skeptical and he told me that he doesn't really think that there is going to be a change in the situation depending on which have a political party is in power in the u.k. so let's take a listen to what he meant by that and his assessment of british politics. the united kingdom. commission you're pretty clear institution. it's protocol for the month for more than six. so this is what. controls the behavior. of the media. elected representatives simply represent. we represent forces to exist on the big institutions and finally polly what is the police presence like around the embassy at the moment because it must be costing the u.k. government a nominal leg isn't it. what i suspected you're going to sarge actually according
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to him he said that the cost of policing the embassy is tipping four million pounds now and actually while we were filming outside the building i got chatting to some of the officers on duty and they were unusually frank we actually had a bit of a law from one of the officers because he said that he worries that someone could be snuck out of the embassy in an ostrich suit or some sort of found sea dress outfit but on a more serious note he said that he feels for the guy because he's stuck in a very tiny space you know when you see pictures of the embassy in the newspapers it looks like a big sprawling building in actual fact it takes up just the first two floors of this residential lot so this is a very tiny space that he's confined to and when i asked the officer about how he feels about the cost of policing the area you can sense a bit of frustration he said that you know all this money is going on watching one man when there are very crippling budget cuts taking place to police forces across the u.k.
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ok polly thank you very much we do have to leave it there. reporting live from london. i for one has wrapped up in bahrain with anti-government protesters clashing with police in a bid to disrupt the controversial event security officers stormed the areas where private phone activists gathered suppressing most opposition marches the protesters had been using the fully one writes to draw attention to human rights and peace in the country demanding more international pressure on the ruling family harbin from the bahrain freedom they've met says the monic a is trying to distract attention from the level of unrest in the country. if you wish and be very clear about a hundred or so. around the country schools have around two hundred people are in the process. so if you want to call the future if you wish to find what we did in reality it is not. quite at all
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if you just do it over there moon and if people are really angry about all the fun why the leaders of the pollution behind what. to do is not much better. in the seventy's and eighty's when it was going. over it. don't live in. a state far style sees greece put some of its most treasured properties under the hammer tearing the cuts batted nation between the sexes he and pride all report on that and more just ahead.
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the international airport in the very heart of moscow.
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welcome back the u.s. military has acknowledged that over half one time my baby prisoners are now on hunger strike among the eighty four protesters five have been put in hospital with life threatening conditions and sixteen are being force fed. explains why the inmates have resorted to such desperate measures. here's a breakdown of who's currently held captive at the u.s. prison in guantanamo fifty four percent are yemeni nationals that is ninety five captives out of one hundred sixty six just a few more figures a total of eighty six prisoners there have been cleared for release fifty six of them yemeni nationals three years ago the u.s. suspended all transfers of detainees to yemen what seems to aggravate the psychological torture of indefinite detention is knowing that your nationality something that you cannot control is the sole basis of that ordeal defense lawyers say what they deal with now is collective punishment by the u.s. government based on nationality which is
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a clear violation of international law when pressed for answers the administration the state department specifically which was in charge of those transfers they point the finger at congress at the moratorium that the lawmakers put in place that the defense authorization act that they passed but lawyers say those are just excuses our clients are coming to grips with cold the me will die is going to not because the state is unable to transfer but because unwilling to do so the transfer of structures are difficult for example the choir the secretary of defense to personally certify that a receiving state had taken steps to ensure that a prisoner can never threaten the united states in the future whatever threaten might mean in that context. and obviously no state can guarantee that a future event will or will not occur but that was the point the point was to discourage transfers from guantanamo citizens of forty eight countries in total have been held in guantanamo since the opening of the prison in two thousand and two the majority of them were from afghanistan and over the years most of them have
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been transferred back to afghanistan the second largest group of captives were from saudi arabia then yemen then pakistan but you see the scope of the manhunt it included forty eight countries as of now it's not just the yemeni nationals who are stuck in this legal limbo but the rest as well michael williams. a senior advisor for guantanamo policy in the office of the legal advisor at the u.s. department of state testified before a human rights commission and here's what he said we will continue to work through the secretary of state and the other arms of the us government to accomplish transfers first of all mr williams of the state department gave this testimony in the middle of march that is three months after the state department shut down the office that was working on those transfers so it is not clear how they continue to work on it if they shut down the office that was doing that also defense lawyers present at this commission hearing saw the response as an attempt to water down the core issue to walking down in legal details which seem to have no effect on the
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outcome of the indefinite detention that they're asking for or justifying is under the laws of war and in the states united states mind that that. that war ends at the end of hostilities against two al qaeda and associated forces well what does that mean that's indefinite that is the epitome of indefinite some here have voiced the idea that whatever is keeping most of those people there has nothing to do with the law but more with the fear that even those who had been wrongfully captured and held there for years for no reason have weakness so much at that prison including torture and other forms of humiliation that fear that the u.s. may have created its own enemies there you have dozens of people cleared for release and still languishing in prison so they may have fallen victim not just to their wrongful capture but now to do worse politicians assumptions of what they may
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or may not do in the future in washington i'm going to check on. and you can find even more stories at our website at r.t. dot com including one to face from anonymous for a web blackout in protest over an infamous cyber intelligence bill that allows authorities to harvest private information with an act of war and. nasa has kept the telescope spots three planets where human life may be sustainable while still scanning the skies for an earth like home like our sun all the details you'll find at r.t. dot com. wealthy shakes and billionaire ali guards are flocking to greece at the moment as it options off seventy thousand prime state properties national landmarks historic palaces and even entire islands are going under the hammer at a frantic pace athens has little to say about the matter but the fire sale demanded by the e.u. and the i.m.f.
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chief paymasters the fact that for one filmmaker shows how far greece has forward we have a soaring unemployment that in a few months we reach thirty percent and we have people committing suicide in the streets we have homeless all around the so we're living in a humanitarian crisis that we haven't seen since the second world war the economic elites that actually control the greek government at least some point to what a mess in d.c. the troika wanted to do now but the real now is that there is a problem that we cannot continue with this mystery policy unfortunately the sci fi doesn't happen for the greek government that beyond there is coming from brussels. or believe. the decision of lucian that you don't accept these are spirit bodysuit . everything we collapse in a few days or
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a few hours the country should. probably even exit the euro zone drawing doesn't understand that his biggest struggle and especially math and europeans are not the just here to save big financial institutions and be banks don't pay attention to the illusion. and greece isn't stopping it selling off what is above ground either with the country's minerals also open to the highest bidder and that has divided even the ranks of hysteria greeks on the one hand it could spell ruin for the environmental environment and local businesses and on the other hand it's jobs for a country wracked with unemployment artie's tom barton found himself in the thick of the conflict. protest in paradise the cause proposals to expand gold mines here were on a mountain road near the village of strat-o. ne in northern greece there were the protesters logs in their position against the mine here further on the mountain road the riot police blocking them from getting
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to the village this process is just one of those showing the intensity of feeling surrounding the subject here greece is how he did keep an insular is renowned of my tourists for its beauty but it also contains precious metals which canada's eldorado gold corporation wants to extract that split the region here in yet a sauce locals want to protect their traditional trades. mining activity is the worst that could happen to this area mining and be keeping cannot co-exist. and protect the health and environment that i'm in panic because the mining will destroy our clean air and clean water part of the problem is the process used to extract and purify gold and other metals which critics say will leave contamination by cyanide and other chemicals this method. results in getting the metals from the office of the metals the majority of them and live in there
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with a lot of residuals as we travel up into the hills where forest has already been cleared the mining company security trails us then persuades well the police up to stop us how do you do that with security and locals are you arguing that this is expected point that they don't want us to film we want to pass an honest public road but i don't this show or somebody tensions between the locals and whining here but yeah that's a good. tensions indeed the locals have destroyed some of the company's heavy machinery and ransacked the police station police have raided homes in the middle of the night to arrest suspects and fired tear gas at protesters but there. as much support for eldorado here is criticism both from the government and other villages whose mining populations welcome the possibility of thousands of extra jobs at a time of deep recession around half of the nearby villages approach mine and deeply critical of anti mining protesters yep we're together with you these people
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who are unemployed cause many problems by telling lies their only purpose is to shut the mines down in fact they want nothing they don't want any development. eldorado gold refused to talk to us but they say they won't be leaving the area. locals any era source say they won't let mining go ahead without a fight but that if they do lose they will be leaving this corner of greece that they love so much tom bottom r.t. . some international news in brief now the serbian government has approved a european union brokered agreement with its breakaway territory kosovo the deal grants kosovo's ethnic albanian leadership control over the area while serbia serbian minorities will receive autonomy is within course of the region declared independence from five years ago and although the declaration was recognized by around one hundred countries including the us and most e.u. states it was strongly rejected by belgrade this latest agreement is seen as
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a major concession from the you hope the motion will open up e.u. membership talks. a new unmanned rocket has successfully launched from masters space port on america's eastern seaboard rocket is a key milestone for the private u.s. company which was behind the launch that plans to begin regular cargo deliveries to the international space station the u.s. space agency stumped up two hundred eighty eight million dollars for the project. hundreds of people have rallied in the indian capital new delhi for a second day to show their anger at police conduct after the rape of a five year old girl be accused officials of failing to investigate after the family of the child reported her missing police have now arrested a second person in connection with the crime the attack left the girl in a critical condition but doctors say her health is now stable. and up next it is cross talk with people about.
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the movie world war z z being first zombie which stars brad pitt as one hundred seventy five million dollar budget has been re cut by paramount executives not because this is probably yet another stupid violent zombie movie but because the chinese might get offended according to the wrap dot com china was supposed to take the blame for starting the evil zombie apocalypse this time but china becoming the largest foreign market for american movies made artistic integrity fly out the window to protect the bottom dollar as is tradition and hollywood this is not the first time that there has been pro-choice censorship in hollywood the remake of red dawn which was originally a cold war era a minstrel show against russians was supposed to show
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a chinese invasion of america this time however they have changed it to north koreans who can't even defeat the us military in south korea let alone at an away game in the usa the thing that is interesting is not the censorship is the fact that they will censor movies for whoever's got a lot of cash coaches the big markets won't be offended but countries with small markets will this is a complete prostitute mentality show that love to any guy who's got bills in his palm you know i was always pretty sure there were a lot of prostitutes working in hollywood i didn't know they actually started making the movies but that's just my opinion. as. well.

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